Warming and monsoonal climate lead to large export of millennial-aged carbon from permafrost catchments of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau

• Published in: Environmental Research Letters
• Main Authors: Chunlin Song, Genxu Wang, Negar Haghipour, Peter A Raymond
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: IOP Publishing 2020
• Subjects: riverine carbon export; radiocarbon; stable carbon isotope; permafrost; Qinghai-Tibet Plateau river; climate warming; Environmental technology. Sanitary engineering; TD1-1066; Environmental sciences; GE1-350; Science; Q; Physics; QC1-999; Kolyma; kolyma river
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ab83ac; https://doaj.org/article/1f4c22058569461c8c2c542b84d736e9

Permafrost carbon pool destabilization causes substantial fluvial export of soil carbon, yet the export patterns and magnitudes are not well understood. Here we investigated the radiocarbon ( ^14 C) in dissolved organic and inorganic carbon (DOC and DIC, respectively) exported from a mid-sized river...